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A screenshot of the Mosaic 1.0.3 web browser.
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Grant Hutchinson via Flickr under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
2001

Funded in part by the HPCA, researchers at the University of Illinois developed the first user-friendly web browser called Mosaic (later renamed Netscape). This browser allowed the user to view words and pictures on the same page, with scroll bars and clickable links. Before the invention of this browser, any multimedia would appear in a new window. This year, the number of computers connected to the internet surpassed one million.